Servers and applications
CVE-2026-115506
libexpat through 2.9.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability because billion laughs protection in accountingDiffTolerated() in xmlparse.c detects entity amplification too late. Attackers can supply a moderately sized XML document with a large DTD and nested entity expansions to consume tens of seconds of CPU per parse.
- Severity
- High 8.7
- Published
- 22 Oct 2026
- Last changed
- 2 Nov 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 2 Nov 2026
- Sources
- NVD
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
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ExpatServers and applications · cpe:a:libexpat_project:libexpat |
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